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单词 biographying
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biographyingn.

Brit. /bʌɪˈɒɡrəfɪɪŋ/, U.S. /baɪˈɑɡrəfiɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: biography v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < biography v.+ -ing suffix1. Compare speechifying n.
Biographical research and writing; the writing of biographies.
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biographying1858
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. ii. 579 What endless writing and biographying there has been about this man.
a1939 H. J. Cushing in J. F. Fulton Harvey Cushing (1946) xv. 462 I was busily trying to get back into my professional stride after four years of ‘biographying’.
2002 Clio (Nexis) 22 June 459 Janet Malcolm perusing the field of biographies of Sylvia Plath,..contributed a book on the art of biographying—or what she saw as its failure.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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